Off the again of a tough weekend at Assen, BMW and Toprak Razgatlioglu want a rebound at this weekend’s Italian WorldSBK, however the Crew Principal of the German model’s manufacturing unit crew, Shaun Muir, says the Italian structure just isn’t assured to go well with the M1000 RR.
The important thing subject for Razgatlioglu and BMW in Assen was tyre degradation, with each the reigning champion and his teammate, Michael van der Mark, struggling a number of seconds per lap of fall-off within the closing a part of each lengthy races within the Netherlands.
Muir stated that the Cremona structure shouldn’t be as demanding on tyres because the Dutch venue World Superbike visited three weeks in the past, however added that the excessive observe temperatures anticipated this weekend in northern Italy are prone to work in opposition to the M1000 RR.
BMW verdict on Toprak Razgatlioglu at Cremona
“I feel the circuit isn’t as demanding on the tyres as we knew that Assen and Phillip Island could be,” Muir instructed the WorldSBK worldwide TV feed throughout FP1 at Cremona Circuit.
“The general place or feeling in the intervening time is that we’re nonetheless working with the package deal that we’ve inherited and that should enhance week-in-week-out.
“I feel we are able to nearly pinpoint which circuits we’re going to be robust at and which of them we’re going to battle at, so this [Cremona] is sort of a 50/50 one for us.
“We all know the quick, flowing corners that had been hurting us at Assen aren’t the identical right here; equally we’ve bought very excessive observe temperatures right here which might be going to harm us.
“It’s a transferring goal, we’ve simply set to work on that race technique that offers us good tyre life over your complete 23-lap race.”
Regardless of the uncertainty across the BMW’s suitability to the structure at Cremona and Razgatlioglu’s inexperience there – having not raced at Cremona final yr on account of harm – Muir stated that the reigning champion is focusing on race wins.
“[Toprak] needs race victories, however equally we’ve bought to have one eye on the championship as a result of it’s an extended recreation,” Muir stated.
“For us, taking factors away from Nicolo [Bulega] is the top aim leaving right here on Sunday night time. Decreasing that margin down has bought to be the aim, if we get the highest step alongside the way in which then that’s going to be incredible.
“Clearly, we are able to see that the Ducatis are robust right here, we all know that Danilo [Petrucci] walked away with [three] wins final yr, […] but additionally that Nicolo Bulega’s grown up within the [time since] he was right here final.
“I feel there’ll be a couple of different riders within the combine there: I feel Sam’s [Lowes] carrying a few of that type forwards that he had in Assen.
“However we’ll work on our personal technique, ignore the others, and see the place the day brings us.”
